Jean-Baptiste Gondelier (8 December 1792 in Dijon – 31 October 1878)[1] was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.
Biography
editAn engraver and lithographer[2] at 110 Passage du Caire in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, Jean-Baptiste Gondelier received a patent in letters on 12 septembre 1828.[3][4] A widow in 1820 of Anne-Françoise-Esther Morisset,[5] he remarried on 25 September 1824 with Joséphine Foliot.[6]
The publisher, among others, of the Constitutionnel and the Gazette des théâtres, He permanently ceased his activities as a printer-lithographer on 8 July 1852.[7] His plays were presented at the Théâtre du Vaudeville and the Théâtre des Variétés.
He married Marie Rosine Palmyre Blancvillain. He died in Laon, Aisne, in 1878.[8]
Works
edit- 1826: Le Dilettante, ou le Siège de l'Opéra, folie-vaudeville in five little acte, à propos du Siège de Corinthe, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Théodore Anne, music by Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, at the Théâtre du Vaudeville (6 November)
- 1826: La Mère au bal et la fille à la maison, two-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon, at the Théâtre du Vaudeville (30 November)
- 1826: Paris et Bruxelles, ou le Chemin à la mode, two-act comedy in vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Étienne Crétu, at Theatre des Variétés (4 December)
- 1827: Le Courrier des théâtres, ou la Revue à franc-étrier, folie-vaudeville in five relais, with Théodore Anne and Emmanuel Théaulon, at Théâtre du Vaudeville (24 February)
- 1827: La Girafe, ou Une journée au jardin du Roi, tableau-à-propos in vaudevilles, with Emmanuel Théaulon and Théodore Anne, at Théâtre du Vaudeville (7 July)
- 1827: Faust, lyrical drama in three acts after the tragedy by Goethe, lyrics by Théaulon and Gondelier, music by Philippe-Alexis Béancourt, at the Théâtre des Nouveautés (27 October)
References
edit- ^ Fiche Gondelier Jean-Baptiste. Editions en ligne de l'Ecole des Chartes, Dictionnaire des imprimeurs-lithographes du XIX° siècle.
- ^ The Bibliothèque Nationale de France attributes him two lithographs published in 1821 representing caricatures of English people (Grotesque n° 6 and Grotesque n° 7).[1] Bibliothèque nationale, département des estampes. Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 by Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, volume 9, p. 258, Paris, 1955, Gallica.
- ^ Administration. Bibliographie de la France, ou Journal général de l'imprimerie et de la librairie, XVII° année, 1828, (p. 750), available at Gallica.
- ^ Gondolier ceded his patent to Pollet, 364, rue Saint-Denis, in 1837.[2] Annuaire de l'imprimerie de 1854, (p. 37), Gallica.
- ^ Inventory after death of 3 March 1820. National Archives, virtual inventory room, minutes and directories of the notary Jean Charles Ducorps.
- ^ Fiche de mariage n° 11/51. Alphabetic file of the reconstituted registry of the City of Paris, year 1824.
- ^ Nominations d'imprimeurs-lithographes, etc. Bibliographie de la France, ou Journal général de l"imprimerie et de la librairie, XLI° year, 1852, (p. 435), available at Gallica.
- ^ Aisne, France Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1408–1930
